Roger's Scenario Thread

RogerCooper

Name Pact of Steel 2
Description WW2 on a smallish map, with many objectives and specials
link

Good Points

Lots of interesting specials. The map is designed to demonstrate the rules, the xml comments contain much of the game's documentation
Plays quickly
Despite the game notes, the Hard AI plays reasonably

Bad Points

Some of the specials are a bit arbitrary

RogerCooper

Description Twelve Clans
Description Sengoku period in Japan
link

Good Points

Vassalage systems makes this more interesting than the usual free for all
Good unit art
Plays fast even with Hard AI

Bad Points

The game notes are not in the repository (they are in my wiki however)
The lack of terrain (even sea areas) limits options and interest

RogerCooper

Name WWIIv3 3 Alliances
Description 3 way struggle using the AA50 Map
[link (https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/WWIIv3_3_Alliances)

Good Points

Rules and map modified to provide more options

Bad Points

It can be hard for anyone to actually win

RogerCooper

Name Battle of Iwo Jima
Description An operational game of the landing on Iwo Jima in 1945
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Good Points

Plays quickly
Can be surprisingly tricky to play as the Americans

Bad Points

Despite the operational setting, the game is a standard A&A game with income, factories and new builds
The Japanese can build new units despite the historical situation
The Japanese can drive the Americans back into the sea (and take the sea) which is completely ahistorical

RogerCooper

Name NWO_Vichy
Description New World Order with Vichy France as an Axis power and Canada as an Allied Power
link

Good Points

Reasonably balanced
Playable with Fast AI

Bad Points

No victory conditions

RogerCooper

Name Cold War
World War 3 in Europe on the New World Order map
link

Good Points
*Straightforward Rules Set
*Accurate Political Situation

Bad Points

US is too weak economically
Cuba is too strong economically
It takes too long for the US to effectively intervene
Hard struggle for NATO
No victory conditions
Warsaw Pact called Axis

Cernel

@rogercooper said in Roger's Scenario Thread:

Name Cold War
World War 3 in Europe on the New World Order map
link

That is not the New World Order map: it looks to me a cropped and modified Domination map.

RogerCooper

@cernel said in Roger's Scenario Thread:

That is not the New World Order map: it looks to me a cropped and modified Domination map.

You are right, on my wiki I actually name the map "Cold War Europe Map"

RogerCooper

Name World at War
Description World War 2 on a detailed world map
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Good Points

Lots of things going in lots of places
Can be run with Fast AI
Reasonably balanced
Income spread out in many areas

Bad Points

No victory conditions
Many geographical oddities
Unrealistic income values

RogerCooper

Global War V3 Rules
World War 2 in a Large Map
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Good Points

Nice-looking detail map
Playable with Fast AI

Bad Points

Russia is too weak, and has little room to trade space for time
No victory conditions

RogerCooper

Name Battleship Row
Description Classic game with reduced movement allowances and altered costs
link

Good Points

Low movement allowances force you to plan in advance
AI plays well

Bad Points

A slow game with limited options

RogerCooper

Name Big World : NekahNet's 1939
Descriptiion 1939 on the Big World map with extra income in some areas
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Good Points

Straightforward ruleset playable by the Fast AI
Balanced

Bad Points

None

SilverBullet

@rogercooper a rare map with no bad points!

RogerCooper

Name NWO Canada 1939
Description New World Order Variant with Canada as a separate nation
link

Good Points

Playable with Fast AI

Bad Points

Can be a bit hard for Germany to get momentum

RogerCooper

Name Lord of the Rings: Middle Earth
Description The War of the Ring
link

Good Points

Map evokes the illustrations from the books
Many interesting unit types

Bad Points

Mass production of unique types
No feel of pre-industrial warfare
No sense of Mordor having a superior numbers in a race against time

RogerCooper

Name World War 1 End of Empires
Description World War 1 (starting 1915) with Upkeep costs
link

Good Points

Upkeep costs are a fixed percent of purchase cost

Bad Points

AI has trouble playing the Americans
Russian revolution rules are undocumented
No feel of trench warfare
Predestined Russian collapse leaves the Entente at a disadvantage.

Schulz

Imho the main issue in most of WW1/WW2 scenarios is rushing Russia is just too much lucrative which eliminates other Axis/CP options.

That's why some maps implement special rules to offset it. Domination 1914 NML is the most successfull one to cancel the obvious lucrativeness of rushing Russia to expand other options thanks to conscripts.

Other option could be decreasing Axis/CP income and randomly spamming a few German subs in the Atlantic each round.

RogerCooper

@schulz Part of the issue is real world one, the Germans should have focused on the East and stood on the defense in the West. Every WW1 game shows this.

This game shows somewhat better the Entente economic advantage. See The Economics of World War 1 for interesting discussion.

RogerCooper

Name 270 BC
Description The Roman conquest of the Mediterranean
link

Good Points

Beautiful unit art
Interesting situation with many points of conflict

Bad Points

No effort made to reflect the historical realities of ancient warfare. Tactically this is reskinned WW2 without aircraft
No victory conditions

Schulz

@rogercooper

I think Germany would be in a worse shape if focused on the East and stay on defensive in the West in 1914.

Although The Schlieffen-Moltke plan failed, Germany has captured Belgium and Northeastern France which was the source of %35-%40 steel and coal production of France. Germany couldn't cripple Russia within a few months like they did to France.